Midrex and Primetals in Russia HBI plant deal

London-headquartered Primetals Technologies and North Carolina, US based Midrex Technologies are partnering with Russia's Metalloinvest to build what the parties call one of the world’s largest hot briquetted iron (HBI) plant.

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Once built, the plant will have an annual capacity of more than 2 million tonnes of of HBI, and is currently expected to start up in the first half of 2024.

The facilty will be built in Zheleznogorsk in Russia's Kursk Oblast region and operated by Metalloinvest subsidiary Mikhailovsky HBI.

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